Questions that are asking to have some questions retagged, usually for a misused tag, or generally removing a tag
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Should [charts] and [graphs] tags be merged?
charts - 205 questions tagged / 77% answered.
graphs - 148 questions tagged / 79% answered.
Both charts & graphs - 27 tagged with both / 74% answered
I think the real difference between charts ...
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Burninate the [service-rec] tag and delete its questions
The service-rec tag, aside from likely being a meta-tag, has 22 of its 23 questions closed for being off-topic and not constructive.
As I don't believe that this tag, or its questions for that ...
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The [filter] tag is ambiguous
See list of questions tagged filter: some of them are about ffmpeg filters (used for resizing videos and such), some are about filtering data in MS Excel, some are about organising emails... none of ...
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plasma tag itself is too generic, should be compounded and split into TV and workspace
As things stand right now, plasma is ambiguous. Questions labeled with it refer both to plasma TVs and to the KDE graphical environment, and this doesn't seem correct to me.
I suggest deleting the ...
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Burninate the [raw] meta-tag
Prior to an intervention, the raw tag was used for two different things:
Questions involving the camera RAW format. All of these questions that weren't closed were retagged with the camera-raw tag.
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Get rid of product-rec tag
product-rec looks to be a good candidate for deletion, or do we keep it around as a match for software-rec and hardware-rec?
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Please merge tag [alternatives] into [software-rec]
alternatives is a subsystem within Debian. However, nobody has asked a question tagged alternatives that is about the Debian subsystem. The only question with this tag that has been asked so far is ...
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Please burninate tag fx-8350?
fx-8350 was created here
It's a specific model number so I don't think it belongs.
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Tag for blacklisting - for
As a follow-up to Tag for removal - for and as suggested by slhck ♦, am requesting for the for tag to be blacklisted.
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Merge [office-2013] into [microsoft-office-2013]
Currently, office-2013 and microsoft-office-2013 are separate tags. Can someone merge the former into the latter?
microsoft-office-2013 should be the canonical tag, given that:
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Merge [remote-desktop] and [terminal-services]
Tags remote-desktop and terminal-services refer to the same thing. I think that terminal-services should remain, since it is the official name of the functionality, also it covers more than just ...
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Blacklist request: [Move], [Removal] and some more
following the tag cleanup for march 2013 I have cleaned up the move meta-tag. No more questions with move.
FYI, most of these questions referred to moving files - I have replaced these mostly with ...
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We need to disambiguate the [wds] tag
wds stands for:
Windows Desktop Search
Windows Deployment Services
Wireless Distribution System
All of these are used here, so we need to figure out how to split up the tag.
Suggestions?
To get ...
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Merge or delete learning & guide-related tags
I'm referring to:
tutorial x 67
learning x 43
guide x 10
guidelines x 7
troubleshooting x 739
Now, obviously they can all be merged (and if so we should also synonymize), but maybe they should be ...
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“not-recognized” - not-required?
Do we really need the not-recognized tag? There's unrecognized which needs to be killed too
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Merge [browsing] and [multiple-browsers] into [browser]
I think these tags are too similar to be different tags. browsing and browser are basically the same, and if the purpose of multiple-browsers is to be more general (not browser-specific) then I think ...
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Speed-related tags
We have both speed:
Questions about optimizing your computer to take up less boot time,
application launch time, download time, etc.
and internet-speed.
I think we can either merge them, or ...
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Tag clean up request - [repeating]
There is a repeating tag.
It doesn't seem to be very useful, almost a meta tag.
It's only on 16 questions (at the time of writing) so should be easy to clean up.
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Let's remove the “change” tag
change is an absolutely meaningless tag.
With 43 questions tagged, it should be easy to get rid of. All that's needed is a handful of users who want to go through these questions and remove the tag, ...
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Combine SSMS and sql-management-studio tags
ssms and sql-management-studio tags both refer to the same application: SQL Server Management Studio. As a result there's no need to keep both tags around.
While 21 questions in each here doesn't ...
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Change microsoft-surface tag to microsoft-surface-rt and add microsoft-surface-pro before imminent launch?
As mentioned in the subject, since the Surface Pro is due to be launched tomorrow, should we change all existing instances of microsoft-surface to microsoft-surface-rt and add a new tag for ...
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Merge connection & configuration related tags
configure & configuration should be merged (although I think they both should be removed).
Some of the following should be merged:
connect
connection
connectivity
disconnects
disconnection
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Remove bugs tag on Main site
Is there any point keeping bugs on the main site around?
Related: Is there a way to block the recreation of the "bug" tag on the main site? (where soandos even commented about and drew ...
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Usage of “external” tag - burninate?
I just removed the external tag from a question regarding viewing of source code for a browser, and it got me thinking that this is somewhat a meta-tag.
There exists tags such as external-hard-drive ...
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Bad name for [modern-ui] tag
modern-ui was AFAIK never the official name from Microsoft. It was always either knows by the codename “Metro”, by the internally used name “Immersive” or by the moniker “Windows Store apps”
Request: ...
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Merge [utf8] and [utf-8]
Can we merge utf8 and utf-8 & synonymize? They're obviously identical. I would merge utf8 into utf-8, since it's usually written with a hyphen (Wikipedia).
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Do we need “warning” and “alert”?
Similar to error-message, which we just got rid of, there are also:
alert × 26
warning × 37
Neither of these are really specific. They don't add meaning to the questions.
Sometimes, ...
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Let's nuke the “error-message” tag
We have a tag named error-message, with now 220 95 49 questions tagged.
This is quite the meta tag, because it doesn't mean anything and adds no value to a question. Most problems result in some kind ...
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Tag for cleanup - finger
finger - Usage seems to roughly equally divided between the *nix command and the digit of one's hand.
Perhaps we can break this up into 2 separate tags? Or even remove the references to physical ...
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Tag for removal - heater
heater - Stupid tag used by a single closed question. I think we can safely get rid of it.
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Merge [laptop-repair] into [repair]
repair x 247
laptop-repair x 81
I think these laptop-repair should be merged into repair - just like battery and laptop-battery - (link).
Questions about laptop repair can be tagged with laptop and ...
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Merge Port tags, Report tags, Portable tags
I found these 3 groups of similar tags that I think can be merged and synonymized:
Port related tags:
port x 377
ports x 61
Report related tags:
report x 20
reporting x 18
bug-report x 6
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Merge password tags
These are the password tags:
passwords x 730
password-management x 127
password-recovery x 90
password-protection x 52
password-generation x 11
password-prompts x 4
Do we really need all of them? ...
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Merge [mic] into [microphone]
mic obviously refers to microphone. Can we merge mic into microphone and synonymize?
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Merge [screen] [display] [monitor] and [resolution] [screen-resolution]
I really think we should merge 2 tags out of these 3:
screen x 544
display x 564
monitor x 1032
because they're too similar. There are even 11 questions tagged with all of them.
I also think we ...
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High Definition tags
I think we can merge / rename / remove some of the following HD tags:
hdtv x 93
high-definition (hd) x 57
hdvideo x 51
What do you think?
hd-dvd x 5
fullhd x 2
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Make [blue-ray] a synonym of [blu-ray] and [bluray]
bluray is already a synonym of blu-ray, so why not make blue-ray a synonym as well?
(Hope no-one creates blueray!)
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Design, cleanup, recycling tags
There are 3 "design" tags:
design x 75
web-design x 26
graphic-design x 20
The problem is that according to the design tag wiki, it already covers web-design and graphic-design:
Questions ...
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List of tag merge requests (Dec 2012)
Merge:
merge php-ini x2 => php.ini 10x
merge autofill x1 => auto-form-fill 3x
merge dos 2x => ms-dos 91x (checked their posts. They mean ms-dos)
synonym mainboard 2x => motherboard 954x
Split:
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Merge [laptop-battery] into [battery]
battery x 373
laptop-battery x 69
I think that instead of having 2 separate tags, questions about laptop batteries should be tagged with laptopbattery instead of having a special laptop-battery ...
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Merge [advanced-format] and [4k-sectors]
Advanced Format, at least in its current state, specifies sectors of 4096 bytes in size, but questions involving 4K AF drives have been tagged as both advanced-format and 4k-sectors. Can someone ...
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Merge [xbox] and [xbox360]
Can we merge xbox and xbox360? I think all of the questions tagged with xbox refer to Xbox 360.
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Tag for removal - for
Just came across this closed question: Windows 8 64 bit which itunes version which has the tags
itunes version for windows-8.
I checked the other instances of for and they seem to be related to the ...
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Do we really need the [recursive] tag?
I recently found a question tagged with recursive, and my first immediate thought went to recursive function calls in programming. Then my thoughts went to the -r option you can specify with most ...
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Scan related tags
I think we need to sort out the following scan-related tags:
scanner x 155
scanning x 87
printer-scanner x 9
document-scanning x 5
scan x 1
The rest are barcode-scanner, scan-disk and overscan ...
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Merge [web-crawler] [webcrawling] [crawler] [spider] tags
web-crawler x 20
spider x 12
webcrawling x 6
crawler x 5
They're all identical and refer to Web crawler:
Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots,
Web spiders, Web ...
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Merge [hard-disk-space] and [storage-spaces] into [disk-space]
disk-space:
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive,
floppy or USB flash drive.
I think we can merge hard-disk-space & storage-spaces into disk-space
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flash, adobe-flash and flash-player
flash:
Adobe Flash is a cross-platform multimedia runtime used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages. According to Adobe, Flash delivers over 75% of online video ...
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Merge [dual-monitor] and [triple-monitor] into [multiple-monitors]
I don't really know a lot about dual-monitor, triple-monitor or multiple-monitors setups, but it seems logical to move dual-monitor and triple-monitor into multiple-monitors since "multiple" refers to ...
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[internet], [connection] and [internet-connection]
First of all, there are 91 questions tagged with internetconnection (both) that should be retagged with internet-connection.
Second, what's the difference between internet and internet-connection? ...
